Google Update Bourbon Part 3

[Sweet Cognac]

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My whole site has a new cache date of May 25th. Maybe once these other sites around me get recached, I won't hold such an honorable top position. But at least Google has found my pages worthy to sit in the Search again.:) It seems strange to look at the stats and see Google in there, after 6 months of just seeing Yahoo and MSN referrals.

My website has plenty of outbound links, but they are on relevant pages. The problem my site has always had, was a lack of "inbound links." I got tired of searching for people to link to me (with all the spammy sites around) and gave up. So my pages have acquired some links naturally I guess(and I'll bet I still don't have more than 30 inbound links for the whole site) Still have a PR4, which I've had since it disappeared in Nov.

[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 8:54 pm (utc) on May 27, 2005]

[Clint]

On the subject of page rank down, cache pages down. How are Google partners doing - trying to search on AOL at the moment and not getting much success.
Off to check Netscape etc.

Seems to be better now. Prob just temp.

Their cached pages are working for me now (if you mean when you click "cached" for a page in any search results).

[Clint]

******Has anybody got a site that was devalued in Bourbon that does not display Adsense?******

I hate to sound stupid, but I don't really know what is meant by this "Bourbon" here. I was trashed as of last late Friday night (20th)/early Saturday A.M,(21st) and I don't run AdWords or AdSense.

[Beachboy]

Google is so broken it's making Yahoo look good, and Yahoo is only adequate, it's not a steller search engine. It's really quite sad. I wonder how long it will take the average search user to realize Google SERPs aren't as good as they used to be.

[curlykarl]

Google is so broken

Working fine for me in the u.k, except for the greyed out toolbar.

I wonder how long it will take the average search user to realize Google SERPs aren't as good as they used to be

I've just spent the last half hour or so researching on a new boiler, the resulte were excellent and relevent. No complaints here.

Karl

[DerekH]

hear hear Karl
I may gripe when my site goes from a solid number one to a two despite my best efforts to beat my opponent. But it's still the search engine of choice when I'm looking for something not connected with my sites (ie as an ordinary user).

It may well be that ones own site doesn't rank the way one would hope, but I have no problem searching for quite a variety of varying terms and always finding what I want in the first page of results.
Not broken as an end-user. Still faster and cleaner than its competitors.

it's just that I can't quite optimise my sites so well for it. And isn't that what they want? <grin>
DerekH

[Wibfision]

Hi Clint,

Bourbon is the name given to the update of the Google algo that caused yours and mine and many more sites to be trashed. I was working with a theory that I read in this forum that directory type sites that display Google Adsense have been devalued, but directory style sites that don't display Adsense have been spared.

[Dayo_UK]

Woohoo - Now a 301/2 redirect to my site (supplemental from 1st Nov) has appeared top ten for my site name. :)

Happy days (OK - you may think that I am being sarcastic) but it does mean that people can now reach my site if they type in its name :).

Hope when Google has sorted themselves out my natural listing appears (Unless I get 301s to all my internal pages too with good ranks)

Sigh.

Note to Myself - keep optomistic - you dont need prozac - Google are working on something big. Hope. Hope. Hope.

[DerekH]

Bourbon is the name given to the update of the Google algo that caused yours and mine and many more sites to be trashed

Not every site can go down.

Did you mean...
"Bourbon is the name given to the update of the Google algorithm that caused a number of SEO'd sites to disappear from the top positions and be replaced by sites the *searchers* wanted to see high up"?

Or is that too mischievous?
DerekH

[weela]

"Did you mean...
"Bourbon is the name given to the update of the Google algorithm that caused a number of SEO'd sites to disappear from the top positions and be replaced by sites the *searchers* wanted to see high up"?"

My site was definitely not “SEO’d” in the sense that I was trying to boost rankings, just common sense this goes here, this needs XYZ attribute. So I think lumping all the sites that went down in raking together isn’t very wise.

And I guarantee you there are sites above me that rank for my keywords that have ZERO content related to the keywords, whereas mine do.

[rise2it]

Just did a search for a product (not related to my business), and 4 out the top 10 are blantant spam pretend-directory pages.

Useless to the end user. Just looking at the title, snippet, and url, it's obvious what they are.

Don't the people who WORK at G-Plex actually use their search engine? When they do a search themselves, why can't they just write down a list of these crap domains to give to the programmers?

If they would do this for two days and manually delete garbage sites, they'd probably be able to wipe out 98% of them.

(...I know, I know - google doesn't like to do things that way - they want to 'tweak' an algo to do it...)